Solzhenitsyn Prize

Russian literary award

The Solzhenitsyn Prize is a non-governmental Russian literary award established by the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1997.[1]

The $25,000 prize is awarded for "works in which troubles of the Russian life are shown with rare moral purity and sense of tragedy, for consecutiveness and steadiness in search of truth".[2] The prize is financed by royalties from sales of The Gulag Archipelago.[3]

Laureates

  • 1998 – Vladimir Toporov
  • 1999 – Inna Lisnyanskaya
  • 2000 – Valentin Rasputin
  • 2001 – Konstantin Vorobyov (posthumous), Yevgeny Nosov
  • 2002 – Aleksandr Panarin, Leonid Borodin
  • 2003 – Olga Sedakova, Yuri Kublanovskij
  • 2004 – Vladimir Bortko, Yevgeny Mironov
  • 2005 – Igor Zolotussky
  • 2006 – Alexei Varlamov
  • 2007 – Sergei Bocharov, Andrey Zaliznyak
  • 2008 – Boris Ekimov
  • 2009 – Viktor Astafyev (posthumous)
  • 2010 – Valentin Yanin
  • 2011 – Yelena Chukovskaya[4]
  • 2012 – Oleg Pavlov[5]
  • 2013 – Maxim Amelin
  • 2014 – Irina Rodnyanskaya
  • 2015 – Sergey Zhenovach[6]
  • 2016 – Grigoriy Kruzhkov[7]
  • 2017 – Vladimir Enisherlov (ru: Енишерлов, Владимир Петрович)
  • 2018 – Sergey Lyubayev (ru: Любаев, Сергей Викторович), Victor Britvin (ru: Бритвин, Виктор Глебович)
  • 2019 – Eugene Vodolazkin
  • 2020 – Natalya Mikhailova (ru: Михайлова, Наталья Ивановна), Sergei Nekrasov

See also

Notes

  1. ^ RBTH (2008-12-12). "Solzhenitsyn's Collected Works to appear over the next few years | Russia Beyond The Headlines". Rbth.ru. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
  2. ^ "In Time of Troubles One Should Stake on the Idea. Interview with the writer Leonid Borodin". Pravoslavie.ru. 2002-04-24. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
  3. ^ "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center — Solzhenitsyn Literature Prize". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  4. ^ Tatiana Shabaeva (2011-05-10). "Yelena Chukovskaya wins Solzhenitsyn prize | Russia Beyond The Headlines". Rbth.ru. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
  5. ^ "Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize Goes to Oleg Pavlov". Russkiymir.ru. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
  6. ^ Карась, А. (2015-03-03). "Игры слов. Лауреатом премии Александра Солженицына стал режиссёр Сергей Женовач". Российская газета (Федеральный выпуск). №6614 (43). Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  7. ^ "Поэт Григорий Кружков стал лауреатом премии Александра Солженицына". Коммерсантъ. 2016-02-29. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-03-07.